Indiana Red Cross Aid Tops Flood Response Efforts
Indiana county leads aid to flood victims with daily truckloads of provisions and supplies. Red Cross officials, B. M. Sanders and Helen Glasser, coordinate relief as 125 homes and numerous families face losses, while bridges and properties in Blairsville and Livermore suffer extensive damage along the Conemaugh valley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Red Cross
B. M. Sanders
Helen Glasser
Indiana County
American Red Cross
Blairsville
Blacklick
Grafton
Conemaugh River
Bolivar
Livermore
Tunnelton
Campbell’s Mills
Aultman
Blacklick Creek
Blairaville
Westmoreland County
Bairdstown
Joseph Kawalik
Scott Calhoun
John Shirley
Joe Miller
Frank Fairley
Jack Lynch
Body of Clearfield flood victim found far from home
The body of Edward Leitzinger a 35 year old Clearfield resident swept away in last weeks flood was found on an island in the Susquehanna near Renovo. He was returning to his home after taking his family to the Dimeling hotel and was the only local fatality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clearfield
Edward Leitzinger
Susquehanna River
Renovo
Dimeling
Mrs Catherine McHenry Celebrates 90th Birthday at North Point
Mrs Catherine McHenry of North Point marked her 90th birthday with a weekend gathering. Guests included her son W D McHenry, sister-in-law Margaret Croasman, a niece Anna Cheatham, and many relatives from Big Run Punxsutawney Hamilton Smicksburg and Loop. Cakes and songs accompanied a Bible reading and well wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine McHenry
North Point
van Stear
McHenry
Lon McClelland
Hamilton
Anna Cheatham
Jane Lipe
Loop
Nancy Drummond
C. H. McClelland
Robert
Burlyn
Olgar
Marcus Crawford
Francesa
John Leiphart
Queer Flood Folklore Reported in Apollo Vandergrift
In the Apollo-Vandergrift flood area a village tale cites odd discoveries after floods. A flag hung on a heating pipe when water receded from a garage. A merchant found sheet music titled Welcome to Our Home in his store, never having such music before. A woman’s cabinet moved between rooms after high water, ending in a different room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apollo-Vandergrift
Funds Donated to Indiana County Red Cross Remain at Home
Chairman W. M. Sanders states that all relief money donated to the Indiana County Chapter for flood relief will stay in the county. No funds will be sent to National Red Cross headquarters amid accusations of diverted contributions. The report of National HQ receiving funds is cited by critics as an excuse to avoid local quota of 3500 dollars. Meanwhile Pennsylvania endured March 17 and 18 floods marked by sleet and snow with heavy ice coating in Ridgway and Erie causing downed trees, damaged poles, and disrupted telecom and power lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. M. Sanders
Indiana County
American Red Cross
National Red Cross
Indiana
Erie
County Dog Licenses Hit Seven Thousand Four Hundred Seventy Four
County Treasurer John M Thompson announced 7 474 dog licenses were issued at noon today. The report notes concerns about automobile safety and recalls on vehicle maintenance as a broader public safety theme.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Thompson
Court approves merger of two Indiana churches
Judge B B Creps approves petition to unite Second United Presbyterian and First United Presbyterian of Indiana effective April 1 1936 Pastor Stillman A Foster to lead merged church Rev Samuel W Shane named associate pastor and secretary Boards of session and trustees from both congregations form the combined church First service scheduled for Sabbath morning April 5
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creps
First and Second United Presbyterians
B. B. Creps
Second United Presbyterian Church
First United Presbyterian Congregation
Indiana
Stillman A. Foster
Board of Session
United Congregation
WPA Transfers 3,000 Men to Rebuild Flood Zone
The Works Progress Administration moved 3000 workers from Westmoreland, Armstrong and Indiana counties to flood devastated districts. Twelve tons of tools were shipped from Philadelphia, 500 pairs of hip length gum boots and 200 tons of hydrated lime were bought locally, and 15 tons of chloride of lime for water purification were provided by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westmoreland
Armstrong
Indiana
Works Progress Administration
Philadelphia
Frederick W. Gaw
WPA
Pennsylvania Department of Public Health
Real estate transfers listed in Indiana area records
A sequence of transfers includes Myland W Clawson to Donald M Miller and back for Indiana lots, 1 dollar and 2 dollars respectively. Samuel Lucas to Clark Henry 78 acres in White township for 2000 dollars. Henry to First National Bank 78 acres for 1 dollar. multiple transactions feature transfers among individuals, banks, and townships in Indiana including Plumville Homer City Cherryhill White Pine Rayne Canoe and Green townships with sums ranging from 1 to 2800 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myland W. Clawson
Donald M. Miller
Indiana
Samuel 8. Lucas
Clark Henry
White Township
First National Bank of Indiana
Griffith
G. Sylvester Griffith
Plumville
John Costello
John O’hare
Homer City
Anna
Mary Lederer
Elizabeth L. Johnston
Cherryhill Township
R. E. Young
Indiana Real Hstate Co
Farmers Bank & Trust Co
Homer Burkett
G. E. Holmes
Milroy Holmes
Pine Township
Owen G.wolf
W. G. Sheesley
North Mahoning Township
zZemena M. Gibson
A. W. Donahue
Green Township
Homer DeZalffe
Third Ward
A. S&s Cunningham
Finley
Barr
Glenn L. Gibson
A. B. Ansley
Rayne Township
Max F. Price
Marriage Licenses and Odd Fragments
Marriage licenses listed for Roy Lambing and Elizabeth Little, Tadiana James Adamson Jr and Maria Kerr, Rossiter James Kerr and Margaret Loreen Hill, Andrew Schultz and Blanche Virginia Stiles, Beatrice Jennings and Thomas Wilden Jr, Ernest Catherine Swanlek, with unrelated antiquated notes about earthquakes and aging anecdotes. The piece includes stray names and nonsensical lines from periodicals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roy Lambing
Marion Center
R. D
Hapsie
Elizabeth Little
Tadiana
James Adamson, Jr
Ponxsutawney
Maria Kerr
Mark Boweryps
C-Creeseecsssaeerene
Matilda Carlson Coven
Rossiter
James L. Kerr
Margaret Loreen Hill
Cokeville
Andrew Schultz
Cramer Blanche
Virginia Stiles
Cramer Legter
Headrick, Conemaugh
Beatrice Jennings
South Fork
Thomas Wilden, Jr
Ernest Catherine Swanlek
Ernest
Indiana Visitors and Local Residents Feign Busy Week
Personal notices list numerous individuals visiting or returning to the area from Indiana and nearby towns. It notes fluently on visits, subscriptions, travel hardships from floods, and reflections on homecomings, with several families and businesses mentioned by name.
Esteemed Indiana couple marks 56th wedding anniversary
Mr and Mrs John G Wells, longtime Indiana residents, celebrated their 56th wedding anniversary at home on North Tenth Street after a quiet family observance due to Mrs Wells illness. The Progress joins friends in sending greetings and good wishes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John ‘G. ‘Wells
Indiana
North Tenth Street
G. W. C. Hervey
A. L. Rankin
Plumville
G. M. Davis
Reynoldsville
Mra
Stiteler
Dubois
Harry W. Lewis
Cozad
Neb
C. W. Hammond
Oakland
Cal
Mra. Wells
Smicksburg
Wells
Prothonotary’s Office
Welle
Loyd C. ‘Wells
Howard M. Wells
Pittsburgh
H. 8. Shelmire
Leroy Condron
Oakmont
Progress
County tax levy unchanged from 1935 figures
The Board of Commissioners set a 10 mill county levy for Indiana County on Monday. Six mills fund the Sinking Fund and four mills the General Fund. Estimated 1936 expenditures total $580,838 with receipts around $533,331.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sinking Fund
General Fund
Indiana County
Board of Commissioners
Flood Benefit Entertainment At Elderton April 1
The Old Timers of Elderton present an evening of old time dance music violin and banjo songs and tap dancing at Elderton High School auditorium Wednesday April 1 starting at seven o clock. Admission 25 cents for adults 15 cents for children with extra voluntary gifts. Proceeds go to flood relief in nearby districts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elderton
Elderton High School
Cal
Senior Talks on American Neutrality at Lions Club
Richard McCool, a senior at Indiana State Teachers College, spoke to the Lions Club Tuesday night on American Neutrality in a most interesting manner and expressed belief that lasting world peace is not entirely impossible. Charles A. Lehman, local insurance salesman, was welcomed to membership in the club.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teachers College
Lions Club
Richard McCool
Indiana State Teachers College
McCool
Charles A. Lehman
Boneflt Dance for Flood Relief at Meadowbrook
Proceeds from a dance at Meadowbrook Club north of Indiana on Friday night will aid flood relief. Norm Vark's orchestra and Meadowbrook Clubhouse facilities are donating their services for the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meadowbrook
Meadowbrook Club
Indiana
Norm Vark
Appointment of Deputy Tax Collector in Wheatfield Township
Miss DUE M. Conminghwo to Deputy Tax Collector for East Wheattheld with Miss Dile M. Cunningham taking over Wheatfield township duties near Aridaghd on the William Penn Highway. Cunningham will receive delinquent tax payments at her home, succeeding the late Mrs. Agnes J. Wake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Due M. Conminghwo
East Wheattheld
Dile M. Cunningham
Aridaghd
Maat Wheatfield
Agnes J. Wake
Miss Cunningham
Indiana Pomilles Wave Downtown Relatives and Friends
Many residents visited Johnstown in the past week and returned with relatives and friends who will stay until conditions in Johnstown become more normal. Local officials expect continued visits and hope for stabilizing conditions soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indiana
Pomilles
Johnstown
This Is the Kind of Stuff Americans Are Made Of
Mrs John Gibson aged 69 of Buffington township visits Indiana today ordering The Progress for a year The couple maintains remarkable health though winter hardships forced them to haul 60 gallons of water daily to the barn they faced coal shortages and shared manual firewood and snow shoveling duties Mr Gibson and his wife claim rare medical treatment in decades of harsh labor revealing sturdy resilience amid common rural privations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. &. Shank
Vandergrift
Indiana
W. J. Elkin
Smleksburg
Elmer Johns
Buffington Township
Lloyd Say
South Bend
Paul Schrecengoat
Girty
Daidy Kinter
South Eleventh Street
Washington,d. C
J. S. Cunningham
Swissvale
Elsie Graham
West Philadelphia
Wynona
Kathryn Malcolm
Pittsburgh
Walter Malcolm
North Seventh Street
H. V. Herlinger
Mt. Lebanon
Fred Herlinger
South Sixth Street
Paul Anderson
Dorothy
Saltsburg
R. D
Ira L.clawson
Salina
Thomas Ellis
Elmer Eilis
Church Street
Johns Hopking University
Marshall
Livermore
Mazie McQuown
Ronald
Deckers Point
S. A. Kinter
Bruce Wagner
Donia Philipps
East Philadelphia
Robert Nemo
Nanty Glo
James Stuchell
Bert Fairman
Jess Fairman
Creekside
Mr. Smith
Harry
American Sheet and Tin Plate
Vander#rift
H. M. Travis
Dayton
Rd.1
Travis
Carl Stonebraker
Carl, Jr
Harry Matthews
Paul
Margaret Moorhead
J. G. Moorhead
D. TL
W. O. Moorhead
Flarry
Wynkoop
Marion Genter
Lakeland
Pia
Old Home
Everett
John Gibson
Five-alarm gas explosion destroys Saltsburg home
Mrs Nancy Baker and two children escaped a Saltsburg residence Monday as a gas explosion wrecked their home near Kinki Springs school. Neighbors Mr Samuel Moore and his wife saved most furnishings while Mrs Baker received facial contusions leaving the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nancy Baker
Kinki Springs
Saltsburg
Crippled Children Clinic to Be Held at Court House
A crippled children's clinic will be held Monday morning April 6 at 9 30 for examination of new and former cases. Doctors BW FP Coe and BL will staff with Kollam assisting. All cases examined free and recommendations for future treatment given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Court House
Vielock
Parente
Coe
Kollam
Involuntary Manslaughter Case Yields Suspended Sentence
Terrence Simpson 17 of Grafton received a suspended sentence on costs in the involuntary manslaughter charge from a fatal Indiana Blairsville road crash on New Year’s morning. John G Hill 26 of Salina died in the accident as Simpson’s car struck after fog and a shattered windshield limited visibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terrence Simpson
Samw
George van Wagner
Blairsville
Pennsylvania
State Highway Department
H. EB. Creps
Allegheny County
John ©. Kinnan
George D. Wagner
Homer City
Merle Engle
Indiana
Steve Machuga
Red Barn
Machuga
Ellwood Gonsalus
Cherry Tree
Gonsalius
Slovanian Wall
Leard Gibson
Strongstown
George Sowers
Graffton
John ‘G. Hill
Salina
Hill
Ethel Festi
Blacklick
Feski
Palmertown
Simpson
Long Time Progress Reader Makes us a Pleasant Call
Mrs. John C. Stuchell aged 80 of Jackson ville visits while in Indiana with daughter Mrs. C. C. Iseman renewing a 40 year subscription to The Progress. She married March 15 1887 to Mrss Anne Farren and the couple farm near Kent Blacklick township. Son Thomas Harrigan Stuchell helps on the 136 acre farm and coal wires work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Stuchell
Jacksonville
Indiana
C. C. Iseman
Melmyre
Stuchell
Anne Farren
St. Glair
White Township
Kent
Blacklick Township
Thomas Harrigan Stuchell
Bell Telephone Wire Chief Transferred to Dubois
E. Wilson, longtime Bel office wire chief, is transferred to Dubois and will leave next week to begin new duties. The Wilsons have lived in Indiana ten years and contributed to local community affairs. Glen Fry of Brownsville will succeed him, Fry is married with three children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BF. Wilson
Telephone Company
Dubois
F. Wilson
Bel
Bell Telephone
Wilsons
Indiana
Wilson
Glen Fry
Brownsville
Fry
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Cone
Maugh River Valley
Redross
Imperial Magazine
Flood
Lews
Lincoln County
Kang
J. B. McElwane
St. Louie University
the Progress and
Pittsburgh Post‘Gazette
BR. D
TN Dtana
Big Hardwarkh
John CG. Wells
U.P. Charch
Parkin
Penn State
Pittsburgh District Dairy Council
Warner
Holstein
Jersey
Guernsey
J. M. Stewart Hardware Company
U. P
John
Rankin
Colantha
George A. Taylor
Taylor
Dairy Council
Schoole
Carl Johnston
Frank Ginter
Missouri
Atchigan Globe
Colorado
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